Gene Spafford Quotes

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

Gene Spafford

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• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Chess

• Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Greek
  • Oil
  • Transform

• Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Drama
  • Plan
  • Ever

• When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

  

  Hale White
  • Fear
  • Afraid
  • Danger

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • God
  • Movie
  • Die

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Wish
  • Ideas

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Religion

• If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Writing
  • American

• It used to be if you wanted to be a comedian, you used to just do sets. You'd go up three times a night, just get better, and then some people would see you and you'd do 'The Tonight Show,' and then boom, you're a comedian.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • People
  • Game
  • Comedy

• The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Professional

• You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Work
  • Real
  • Money

• Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl

• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Pilot

• You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Imagination
  • Poetry
  • Metaphysics

• I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Environment
  • Fireworks
  • Permitted